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500 000 Mark Eichendorf, Bankhaus H. Eckert
| Issuer | Bankhaus Heinrich Eckert, Filiale Eichendorf |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 500 000 Marks (500 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 000 Zahlungs-Anweisung über eine halbe Million Mark welche das Bankhaus H. Eckert, Filiale Eichendorf, dem Ueberbringer nach Behebung der Bargeldnot ausbezahlt. Eichendorf, (Ndbay.) 25. August 1923. Bankhaus Heinrich Eckert Filiale Eichendorf i. V. Druck v. J. Schreibauer, Eichendorf |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain uniform cream-beige paper surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Bankhaus Heinrich Eckert was a private banking house operating out of Eichendorf, a small market town in Lower Bavaria. During the hyperinflation of 1923, countless local businesses, municipalities, and private banks across Germany issued their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the Reich's inability to produce sufficient legal tender fast enough to keep pace with the collapsing mark. This note is that kind of instrument: purely functional, born of necessity, printed locally by J. Schreibauer rather than sent to one of the major specialist firms handling the flood of similar commissions.
At 500,000 Mark, it was already obsolete in purchasing power within weeks of issue.